Just like Christmas Eve!

Rush had an excellent monologue today on the Valerie Plame circus and the media anticipating the indictments in the same way children anticipate on Christmas Eve.

You can read it here and hear it here.

An excerpt:

I think the media got up today with the same theme going, said, "This could be the day, why, the day we're all waiting for. This could be Christmas morning. Last night could have been our Christmas Eve," and then the special prosecutor's office. Oh, and Fitzgerald's walking into the courthouse and he's got an entourage of FBI and counterinsurgent guys around him protecting him, whoever they are, and the media they got a throng of cameras fog him in there. "This could be it! He's going in to tell the grand jury who he wants to send up. This could be it! We can't even keep our pants up we're so excited," and then the spokesman announced no indictments today, and you could just see the tears. You could see the tears forming. Some of the media looked like they're sucking on lemons, the way Katrina vanden Heuvel looked last night on Hardball. Did you see that? She looked like she was sucking lemons the whole time she was on the program. Had no way to connect the dots about Saddam Hussein but, boy, she can connect the dots to Dick Cheney. At any rate, folks, after all of this hullabaloo last night -- and, by the way, ABC later denied that they had ever said to the White House they "double-sourced anything about indictments," so we have that disparity. Why would the White House make this up? At any rate, so Fitzgerald announces no indictments today, and it just made me wonder: So what was all this last night?

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